The Ministry of Agriculture talks about the hot issues such as "fly corruption" and "three stays" in rural areas.
Cctv news: On June 24, 2019, the State Council Press Office held a press conference. Han Jun, deputy director of the Central Rural Work Leading Group Office and vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Wu Hongyao, member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and director of the Secretariat Bureau of the Central Rural Work Leading Group Office, introduced the situation of rural governance and answered questions from reporters.
Reporter: I have two questions. The first one is about what measures will be taken to standardize small and micro power and prevent fly corruption? The second question is about the hollowing out of villages and the "three left-behind" problems in rural areas. How to arrange the Guiding Opinions and what measures will be taken next?
Wu Hongyao:The document clearly stipulates the corruption of small and micro power, that is, the corruption that occurs around the peasants, and also puts forward clear requirements to increase the punishment of small and micro power corruption at the grassroots level. This document emphasizes the need to standardize the operation of small and micro power in rural areas, clarify the legal basis, scope of operation, subject of execution and procedure steps of each power exercise, and establish and improve the supervision system of small and micro power at the same time, so as to form a real-time, multi-network supervision system including mass supervision, supervision committee supervision, superior department supervision, accounting supervision and audit supervision. The document also requires that the grass-roots power in rural areas should be closely organized to run a "clean government protection network", that micro-corruption in rural areas should be vigorously rectified, that rural inspections should be promoted, and that corrupt acts that infringe on farmers’ interests should be seriously investigated and punished. In this regard, key rectification has also been carried out in the special struggle to eliminate evils deployed throughout the country.
Han Jun:On the issue of "three left behind", with the rapid advancement of urbanization, the rural population continues to decrease, and the problem of "three left behind" in rural areas in some places has become increasingly prominent. The key to solving the problem of "three left-behind" is to establish and improve the care service system of "three left-behind", which is emphasized in the No.1 document of the Central Committee every year and is constantly advancing. The Guiding Opinions on Strengthening and Improving Rural Governance also puts forward some requirements for doing this work well.
Generally speaking, the first thing is to give full play to the role of the government, and the government should shoulder its due responsibilities and continue to increase investment. Secondly, we should give full play to the role of society, especially the role of social workers, including volunteers. This is also a key area. In recent years, there have been many good explorations. It can be said that a very strong atmosphere has been formed in mobilizing social forces to participate in the establishment of the "three left-behind" care service system. The next step is to promote these good experiences, and to encourage and commend those who have made contributions.
To solve the problem of "three left-behind", we should also emphasize the family’s due responsibilities. For example, for left-behind children, it is necessary to emphasize the responsibility of parents in rural families to support their children. In a word, the caring service system can only be truly established if a mechanism of government responsibility, social participation and family responsibility is formed.